The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1887-03-12
THE TRIBUNE.
BILL NYE'S BOILS.

aorous experience with boils. T
Others this announcement will com
with no element of sadness, but +
me it brings thrill of the keenes
and most poignant anguish.
man might go all over a who'll
country and not find anything NOR
poignant than those boils seem It
me.
There are seven of these it'll,
blossoms, and they hang in rip,
cluster on the back of my neck
about two inches below what thu
phrenologists call love of home.
| have never brought out boil
until last week, though l have led
a very chcckered life, but recently
] awoke to find myself the parent
of seven cunning little red-headed
boils about the side of a pumpkin
seed.
They are small. but oh how rest
less they are, and how they strug-
gle with each other for supremacy
People who live here say these
boils are a result of the climate.
The air here is especially calculat-
ed to bring out anything in the line
of latent humor A man who has
been running a humorous weekly
paper in the far west came here,
and in two weeks he broke out SO
that his friends had to do him up
in a poultice seven feet long.
| am not doing much for these
sboils, because / want to teach them
to be self-reliant and depend upon
themselves. One of them, was a
puny little thing at first, and | felt
sorry for it when my friends told
INC about it. | cannot see these
boils, of course, as they are not in
the direct range of vision, being on
the back of my neck SO l get a
triend-one / can trust-and | let |
him come and tell me how they are
doing from time to time.
This little boil at first did not bid
fair to hold out more than day or
Two, but yesterday it began to
throw aside its lethargy and to real
lie that life is real. 1t is fully
abreast of the others now, and has
q large and very active crater to it.
For three days have put var
ious things on these boils; among
others soap, sugar, the white of
egg, ground faxsecd, bread and
milk, bread and molasses, etc, etc.
There were other things RECON-
but as the boils were all
IN a cluster, | had to try one thing
ut time. With seven boils well
distributed I might have tried sew
eral remedies at once, but did the
best | could. In three days / have t
$13 worth of groceries en- {
.irely useless to consumers. {
One great difficulty has been the
unsatisfactory results to to get any
'leep. Before was overtaken by '
he poll evil | used to rest on the /
back of my head and neck at night {
| good deal, but after few expert b
ncnts with my head pillowed ON
hese seven little hot-headcd boils.
found that it made my head to h
ugh. tt
Boils visit the rich and poor a
like, the humble and exalted 6
hey are not a mark of greatness,
Or boils frequently come to the
bscure and unknown. They do n
OF come with the seeking, and u
hey are not to be obtainedby study u
effort. Boils fall to the lot of p
lany whose lives would otherwise
void of incident. 70 such they :,
re indeed great benson, or NAV ~,
used as such. How many pco- =,
lie DO we know who have naught
Sc to show in the way of progress,
ata kind providence has bestowed dc
boil upon them now and then. %
Inch they can exhibit as an evil ia
'nce that they are not remaining
agnant.
The felon also is a queer article, sci
G usefulness Of which has never tn;
en- made thoroughly clear to my
ind. There are ninetv-e;obt dir :